
Cardoso Among the Technopols
Though Brazil's new centrist president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, achieved early prominence as a Marxist sociologist, there have been no major ...

Always From Somewhere Else: Reflections on Exile
To live in exile is to lose the familiarity of your own face, and walk the streets of foreign cities ...

WOMEN ORGANIZE TO FIGHT GENDER DISCRIMINATION
Women now represent 35.5% of Brazil's docu- mented labor force-up from 20.8% in 1970-the largest proportion of employed women in ...

BRAZIL The Persistence of Inequality
An upbet--ifslightly wary--Brazil celebrated the New Year with the inauguration of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, an old leftist who led ...

The CUT: New Unionism at a Crossroads
Brazil's new trade unionism faces a basic paradox: at the very peak of the CUT's ifluence in the broader political ...

Letters
Colombia Solidarity I Want to congratulate NACLA for publishing Ana Carrigan's "A Chronicle of Death Foretold: State- Sponsored Violence in ...

Reviews
Looking for God in Brazil: The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil's Religious Arena by John Burdick, University of Califor- ...

Taking Note
The Age of Discipline It has been a growing source of concern among many of the defenders of Latin America's ...